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Epidemiology in Developing Countries

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Modern epidemiology can boast of a precise definition, clearly formulated basic concepts, and well-elaborated methods, all of them described elsewhere in this handbook. They are in principle the same in developing and in developed countries. What is different is the framework, the choice of topics and applications to be treated given local necessities, but also the battery of tools adapted to typical tasks and available under local conditions, and finally, the type of difficulties that epidemiological work is facing.

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The authors thank Eliza Dutta for her comments on the manuscript and Dr. N.S. Deodhar, Kavita Modi-Parekh, and Mugdha Potnis-Lele for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.

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Krickeberg, K., K, A., Chakraborty, A.K. (2014). Epidemiology in Developing Countries. In: Ahrens, W., Pigeot, I. (eds) Handbook of Epidemiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09834-0_39

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